Parcel or package strap.



No. 799,793. PATENTBD SEPT. 19, 1905. J. KINSBLLA.

PARCEL 0R PACKAGE STRAP.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 17, 1903.

Wi-r-NEs 6 E36 Arron/va UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES KINSELLA, OF CAMBERWELL, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.

PARCEL OR PACKAGE STRAP.

Specification of Letters IEatent.

Patented Sept. 19, 1905 Application filed November 17, 1903. Serial No. 181,507.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES KINsELLA, leathergoods manufacturer, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing in Bussell street, Camberwell, in the British State of Victoria, Commonwealth of Australia, have invented a new and useful Improved Parcel or Package Strap, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved parcel or package strap which is provided with a handle and is particularly useful for securing and carrying about packages of cubical form, such as basket-trunks and the like, as by the peculiar construction of the strap the package cannot slip from it through the package being bound about its ends as well as its sides.

The invention will now be described, aided by a reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows my improved strap upon a cubical package, such as a basket-trunk; Fig. 2, a plan of the strap as it lies upon the under side of the package, and Fig. 3 an alternative means of connecting the under part of strap.

The strap is made in two main parts, each consisting of a strap A, which encircles and secures the package sidewise, and a strap A,

. which passes over the ends of package.

The upper part of each strap A is passed through and held apart by loops at each end of an ordinary strap-handle B, while the lower parts of said straps intersect each other diagonally at C in the form of an X over bottom of package, the intersecting parts thereat being either connected together by a ring 0, Fig. 2, orstitched or riveted together, as shown in Fig. 3. From the terminals can of said X part the straps pass upward over each side of the package in theform of two obtuse angles, the apex portion of each strap being connected, by a ring a or other fixing, together and to another strap A, which passes around and over each end part of the package, each end strap being short enough to maintain the side parts of the strap A at an obtuse angle. The lengths of said end straps A are either fixed or they are provided with a buckle, as M, so that their length may be adjusted. Said main straps A, which pass from the terminals of the X about the sides and top of the package and through the handle-loops, are provided with buckles a to enable each strap to be tightly secured on the package or trunk, and in so doing, by the side straps lying at an obtuse angle or direction, the strain put upon the main buckles a tend to straighten the obtuse angles, and so strain the end straps and cause them to fit closely on the package. These straps are constructed, preferably, of leather, although they may also be made of webbing or other material. Further, I wish it understood that the connecting medium between the end parts of the straps and the type ofbuckles and handle may be varied to suit the material of which the parcel or package straps are composed and their get-up and design.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A package-strap comprising a buckle portion adapted to extend over the top of the package near its longitudinal center with its ends terminating at the sides of the back and front of the package, a second buckled portion adapted to extend horizontally from the ends of the first-mentioned portion around the end of the package, said portion being duplicated at the other end of the package and the top buckled portions connected by a handle, and portions adapted to pass under the package and connect the front and back ends of the top and end portions at one end of the package with the back and front ends respectively of the duplicate top and end portions at the other end of the package, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES KINSELLA.

Witnesses:

HERBERT CAREER, N. J. S. THOMPSON. 

